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January 2016

01/29/2016

In the corporate world it is usual to make dissimilar marketing operations and activities. Professionals do their job to provide successful marketing in a good way. But your task is to comprehend clearly how your marketing approaches work and the quantity of profit you get from your corporate projects.
It is crucial to understand how much clients you have and how successfully your sales' approaches work. In many situations professionals use different applications and software solutions for making precise reports. But there is also an excellent advantage to automate the process of sales and management.
You can find a lot of reasons to have such solutions at hand. The process of making automated reports. There is an opportunity to make the programs keep and process the records. It is very complicated for experts to research the information and make the calls each day.
Experts spend a lot of hours every day to make the precise records. However they can devote that time to making more sales. The automation process involves the usage of important forms. This helps people to save their time. If you need sales order forms you just need to fill out the needed information in the template offered by the reporting application.
You can make the procedure even more effective by getting the reports from the web of your own portal. Your professionals may have an open access to the portal. Therefore the information that is required can be easily obtainable to you. With the usage of programs you don't need to print the reports any more.
By doing so, you simply reduce the usage of office expenses. With the help of the internet important information and reports are accessible to you and your experts. Sales professionals can be easily supplied by the needed information to make your services more effective. Automated reporting services just economize your time.

With 2015 now behind us, it’s time to review the latest business travel trends and T&E spending analysis from the Certify SpendSmart™ Report for the fourth quarter and full year. Receipts and expenses in Q4 show ride-hailing giant Uber has now taken over taxi and car rental as a percent of total national ground transportation transactions, while traditional business travel vendors remain strong in air, hotel, meals and other expense categories.

Uber eclipsed rental car with 41% of total ground transportation transactions compared with 20% for taxi and 39% for car rental. Prior to the fourth quarter of 2015, only San Francisco and Boston reported Uber as having a greater percent of rides than car rental. Also in the ride-hailing space, Lyft experienced an increase of 712% in 2015 from the previous year, although the second-largest provider represents just a small part of total rides overall. For more about the sharing economy and full-year spending trends, check out the infographic now.

Elsewhere in the sharing economy, Airbnb showed an impressive 259% year-over-year growth in 2015, gaining ground both home and abroad. Additional sharing economy companies such as Hotel Tonight, WeWork an others made it into the SpendSmart report for the for the first time due to their growing popularity among business travelers over the course of the year. While these companies don’t yet account for a large volume of transactions, growth within the year shows that business travelers are getting more comfortable with a range sharing economy services beyond Uber and Airbnb.

The Certify SpendSmart™ Report tracks business travel expense spending across major categories such as food, airlines, lodging, and car rental. Additional analysis of the 9 million receipts and expenses logged by Certify this quarter includes top travel vendors and leading brands such as Starbucks, McDonald’s, Subway, Delta, United, Marriott, Hampton Inn, National, and Enterprise. The report highlights top vendors and emerging trends by analyzing data from millions of expenses and receipts processed by the Certify system. Data is compiled each quarter to help controllers, accountants, and business travelers make more informed expense management choices.

01/26/2016

The automated expense reporting is effective not only in managing expenses, but it may help managers streamline revenue generation as well. Here are top reasons why every large and small firm should choose to automate their expense management. An automated expense reporting tool provides consistency across all areas of a company. Whether you need to calculate costs on distance basis or want to charge your employee on per hour basis, the system can create an accurate bill, and track relevant details automatically. Companies are constantly monitoring their travel and entertainment expenses for cost savings. The automated expense system can provide a real time view of T&E data related to projects, employees, departments, and customers to help managers curtail additional costs. The IRS accepts digital receipts if the expense management system processes the data following certain requirements. With an automated system, both businesses and individuals can maintain digital copies of their expenses and save on storage costs of hard copies. Automated system allows employees to submit expense receipts quickly while they are on the go. They can take photograph of receipts and add it to expense report without having to wait until they reach the office.

Compliance is an important concern for businesses. Failure to comply with internal and external regulatory requirements may result in fines and charges. Since staying updated with policies and managing those changes might be costly and time consuming, automated expense reporting systems enable you to generate modified reports based on legislative changes conveniently.

Making intelligent decisions is difficult if you are not equipped with relevant data. An automated expense reporting system allows access to a centralized database to help you make better and more informed strategic decisions. You could use the information to modify entertainment and travel policies, negotiate better deals with suppliers, and identify violations to take corrective actions.

Firms of all sizes and types can take advantage of an automated expense reporting system to streamline their business operations and improve growth.

01/25/2016

Gone are the days when representatives needed to make demands on a former premise for visits and goes for their organization's sake. Whether, it was a migration choice or a short round excursion past the limits, every worker needed to take after a specific technique to bill his or her travel expenses caused amid go, under organization's record. The photo is no more the same. In today's digitally engaged world, corporate administrators and magnates request extravagance at each stride. They request applications that are anything but difficult to-utilize and give moment access to sought databases. With onset of web applications and Information Technology driven software, performing multidimensional assignments with just fingertips is simple and helpful. With various leader items, cloud-based innovation has progressed dangerously fast. You might be sitting in South Africa and anticipating setting out to the United States of America for a combination meet. All things considered, with an assistance of an expense reporting software, making procurement's for your travel is straightforward and should be possible in a goad of minute. Additionally, you can add or subtract areas with simple openness.

By reporting software, you have to send an email demand on the site's area alongside your assigned travel schedule. Once the mail is sent, you will get an affirmation message on your versatile number and an affirmation mail on your mail id. Once, your solicitation is achieved, the software will consequently acquire and catch the relating booking information, accept it against your organization's travel arrangements and educate the voyager's and the approver, continuously. Later, with only a single tick innovation, you can accept the booked data with the "corporate card charging information and expense" to make an expense report for accommodation. Each worker gets a corporate card to bill any kind of travel expenses made for the benefit of his or her organization.

When, you prepare your expense report, you are required to submit it to the records division. Here, they approve every last expense against the organization's approaches and guarantee complete consistence. This arrangement furnishes full combination with incorporated ERP frameworks and specifically repays the worker's corporate cards and ledgers. The best component of this software is its various availabilities. Android and cell phone clients can download this software and roll out improvements in their touring arranges as needs be. Additionally, a representative can get to his or her card from anyplace, around the world.

01/20/2016

In what was already a tremendous year for Team Certify, we received exciting news in the closing weeks of December that PC Mag named Certify Now! among the best expense report software of 2015. More than that, of the five expense management solutions evaluated Certify Now! tied for Editors’ Choice based on usability, expense functionality, and price. We are truly honored.

PC Mag reviewed Certify Now! and others to help small-to-midsized businesses identify the best system to help control employee-initiated expenses, comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and IRS requirements, and other important factors. The key features compared include mobile optical character recognition of receipts, ease of use, available integrations, flexible pricing, currency exchange, and more.

There’s a lot of great information in the both the full article and the detailed review of Certify Now!, and we encourage you to check them when you can. In the meantime, here are some of our favorite quotes from the review courtesy of PC Mag editor Alyson Behr:

• “Finding the right expense tracking solution for your small to midsize business (SMB) can be a time-consuming, painful process. As software-as-a-service (SaaS) expense reporting products go, Certify Inc.'s Certify Now! is hard to beat.”

• “The (Certify) iPhone mobile app was very easy to use. I was amazed when it captured expense data accurately in a few seconds from my receipt in real time.”

• “Certify Now! is an exceedingly well-rounded expense tracking product that suits an SMB environment, and will be there with enterprise support when the SMB is ready. The product does a great job of marrying admin and finance demands with a mobile user's need for end-to-end expense reporting simplicity.” Certify Now! is the core product offering from Certify for travel and expense made easy. To learn more about Certify Now! or to compare our professional and enterprise plans, go to certify.com today.